Quotes About Inquiry

When I release my music I will text Sharon Osborne and ask her about my songs.

Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks.

Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

I wandered along to the chemistry labs, more or less on the rebound, and asked about becoming a research student. It was the '60s, a time of university expansion: the doors were open, and a 2:1 was good enough to get me in.

Isn't Googling someone the first thing everyone does?! They meet someone new and Google them!

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.

Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don't know what comes next, and that's something that's always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

All of the Flying Lotus records are exploring similar themes: These questions in my mind about what's next and what's beyond.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." Eugene

No es la respuesta que ilumina, sino la pregunta." Eugene Ionesco

the first scientists and the first mathematicians.

Science arose in the West—and only in the West—precisely because the Judeo-Christian conception of God encouraged and even demanded this pursuit.

The truth is that science arose only because the doctrine of the rational creator of a rational universe made scientific inquiry plausible. Similarly, the idea of progress was inherent in Jewish conceptions of history and was central to Christian thought from very early days.

Consolémonos por ignorar las relaciones que pueden existir entre una araña y un anillo de Saturno, y sigamos examinando lo que está a nuestro alcance. Voltaire.

The scariest question is the one you don't want to hear the answer to.

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Sounds as if the intruder was looking for something, Norma.